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SUMMARY:Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pr
 onatal abolition - Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University)
DTSTART:20210211T160000Z
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CONTACT:Leah Astbury
DESCRIPTION:Measuring\, experimenting on\, and dissecting sick and dead bl
 ack bodies\, physicians\, scientists\, and naturalists claimed expertise t
 o prove and document racial differences. Racial science bolstered slavery'
 s social order and white medical authority by scientifically rendering bla
 cks as inferior to whites and therefore incapable of contributing much to 
 society beyond brute labour. Uncovering the invention of racial science re
 mains important to disrupting the tendency to ignore the bonds between med
 icine and slavery. And yet\, how do we acknowledge the debt modern medicin
 e owes to Africans and their descendants when the archive from which we ar
 e to produce knowledge of such debt was designed in exclusionary terms? Ho
 w do we reconnect medicine to transformative transatlantic social and cult
 ural interactions when it untethers itself from the quotidian? This method
 ological reflection explores how we might approach non-traditional medical
  history sources\, specifically plantation slavery and abolitionist record
 s\, to reveal how politics and culture shaped medicine. It examines how th
 e debates to end the slave trade and the interaction between enslaved midw
 ives and learned\, expatriate physicians influenced medical practice\, ide
 as\, and regulation.\n\nSasha Turner is the author of _Contested Bodies: P
 regnancy\, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica_ which won awards from the 
 Berkshire Conference on Women's History and the Southern Historical Associ
 ation. She is an Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins Universit
 y and completed a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge.\n\n"Regis
 ter for this lecture":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sasha-turner-16th-cam
 bridge-wellcome-lecture-tickets-136633772291
LOCATION:Zoom
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